6 best-selling photography books like Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists by Rebecca Bengal

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Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

By: Rebecca Bengal

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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2. An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus

By: William Todd Schultz

2.86

Format: 358 pages,

Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art.… read more

Similar categories in William Todd Schultz's An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus book and Rebecca Bengal's Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction

3. Woolgathering

By: Patti Smith

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgatheringtells of a youngster finding herself as she lea… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a l… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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5. Cassandra at the Wedding

By: Deborah Eisenberg , Dorothy Baker

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At t… read more

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6. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction

7. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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8. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

9. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

By: Sally Mann

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Man… read more

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10. The Door

By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more

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11. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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12. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

By: Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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13. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

By: Janet Malcolm

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."

-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

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14. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • art
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15. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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16. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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17. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

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"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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18. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

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20. To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions

By: Tim Carpenter

4.01

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

A book-length essay about photography’s unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality Drawing … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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21. Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists

By: Rebecca Bengal

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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12 Top nonfiction books like Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists by Rebecca Bengal

Transform Your Habits

An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus

William Todd Schultz

2.86

Woolgathering

Patti Smith

3.64

Transform Your Habits

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

Rebecca Solnit

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

4.22

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11 Top nonfiction books like Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

Transform Your Habits

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller

John Waters , Gary Indiana , Chloe Griffin , Mink Stole

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Cookie Mueller

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

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